Creature Feature

What the crab are crabs up to? Are crabs building a crab-ciety? What kinds of crabstructions are the crabs crabbing up crab? Discrabber this and more as we answer the age old crustacean, uh I mean question, should we all be crabs? 

Footnotes:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/15fGxThb_XQJ3DJBlfJM5HWL8TqTn6-xZ36jcx2I1lrA/edit?usp=sharing

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All the animal news that’s fit to paw-print, and a dose of extra science just for you with guest Shereen Lani Younes! Whales caught hugging on camera, Angelina Jolie covered in BEES, and a new glowing toadlet just dropped! Discover this and more as we answer the age old question: can you get sued by a bee for copyright infringement?

Footnotes:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zS50O8TnvmSwQLDnB-bhv7Ahwd18YNscCy6E3RbXFpg/edit?usp=sharing

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I'm reading your emails and questions about how bugs taste, graveyard dogs, juvenile delinquent birds, and existential ponderings about evolution. Discover this and more as we answer the TRULY age old question: zebras, black with white stripes or white with black stripes?

Footnotes: 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nUQgscnJ7qOZSadnOGZZRhqjMtpMSLVutKXfXIyPvRw/edit?usp=sharing

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We are getting to the bottom of some viral animal stories! Are these real animals? Real behaviors? Or hogwash? From deep sea War of the Worlds aliens, to long ducks, to kissing carp, we’re taking on internet rumors and separating fact from fishion with Robert Brockway and Seanbaby.

Footnotes:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1h9K21PgnglD8PvDZBsoh5e2df6eAxOAGzHAy58MsOVg/edit?usp=sharing

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Planet’s haunted guys! From ghostly worms, to eight-armed specters, to ghost bats far scarier than any vampire, we’ve got a passion for possession when it comes to these cute hauntings! Discover this and more as we answer the age old question: what are ghost dogs with Bridget Greenberg.

Footnotes: 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ikmVakjOrOSpD-9Ge4oRw9s11rIQS6cYOv35SquEXt8/edit?usp=sharing

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We’re talkin' about the world’s most spectacular fliers, from the tiny and nimble hummingbird, to the bird with a wingspan longer than any basketball player. We’ll cover mammalian gliders and murmurating starlings with Anna Hossnieh!

Footnotes: 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DBtY8v-AzSXBY7KZdGCIU__QavLFCvXLub1IEputujQ/edit?usp=sharing

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We're going on a deep dive on three listener questions with Kristi Yamaguccimane! From killer kangaroos to pesky parasites, to evolutionary copycats! Discover this and more as we answer the age-old question: Why is Australia? 

Footnotes:

Google doc with all the images for this episode https://docs.google.com/document/d/1I5PQ9z3QffxZAjwudtmSh1ENv7L9W8sl_u9LKBcGiys/edit?usp=sharing

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BROOD X has been waiting 17 years to emerge from the ground. What is Brood X? Should we panic? Discover this and more as we answer the age old question: How is it fair that swarms of baby turtles are considered cute, but swarms of bugs are considered “horrifying,” with Mara Wilson. 

Footnotes:

1. Cicada
2. Cicada tymbal 
3. Cicada sounds
4. Holes left by mass cicada emergence (warning for trypophobia)
5. Lots of cicadas!
6. Mass sea turtle hatching! 
7. Giant river turtle!
8. Mass river turtle hatching!
9. Soft coral
10. Stony coral

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We’re talking all things lagomorphs, from hares to rabbits to domesticated bunnies! We’ll learn that rabbits don’t lay colorful eggs, but they DO eat their own poop! Discover this and more as we answer the age old question: could a rabbit fly on those ears with enough thrust? Find out with our special guest Joelle Monique!

Footnotes:

1. Pika (but no pikachu)! 
2. A black-tailed jackrabbit
3. Another jackrabbit
4. Newborn HARES come out HAIRY
5. Newborn rabbits come out NUDE
6. The rare amani rabbit
7. FLEMISH GIANT RABBIT
8. Pygmy rabbit (juveniles) 
9. Netherland dwarf rabbit (haunted version)
10. Netherland dwarf rabbit (with more fluff) 
11. English lop
12. Fluffiest angora rabbit 

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We’ve got round-trip tickets to crustacean station, and I’m answering all your shrimpy questions. What is shrimp? How big they get? What’s up with that poop vein? Discover this and more as we answer the age-old question: are shrimp just tiny lobsters? Join us with guest Danl Goodman on this journey under the sea.

Footnotes:

1. Deep sea shrimp?!
2. EYELESS deep sea shrimp?!?!
3. A pistol shrimp's big meaty claw
4. Brine shrimps is aliens
5. Beautiful peacock mantis shrimp
6. GIANT MANTIS SHRIMP
7. THERE'S A DUCK IN YOUR FROG metal cover
8. Check out more of Andrew's music!

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